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A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Lastly, this uncleanness may be considered as it is in a solitary person, when alone, in their actions of darkness and abominable imaginations, which are to be loathed rather then named; yet these things which are done in secret are seen of God, though it be a shame to speak of them: see Ephes. 5.11, 12. This secret uncleanness, again, may be by a person, either walking, or sleeping, mentioned Lev. 15. which confessedly becometh men or women's guilt, according as they have drawn it on, or by unsuitable imaginations disposed themselves for it; yea, when it hath not ingrata recordatio, an unsavoury and displeasing remembrance, and a holy horror • following thereupon, there is guilt: Of this we spoke somewhat in the Preface to the Commands.
Lastly, this uncleanness may be considered as it is in a solitary person, when alone, in their actions of darkness and abominable imaginations, which are to be loathed rather then named; yet these things which are done in secret are seen of God, though it be a shame to speak of them: see Ephes. 5.11, 12. This secret uncleanness, again, may be by a person, either walking, or sleeping, mentioned Lev. 15. which confessedly becometh men or womens guilt, according as they have drawn it on, or by unsutable imaginations disposed themselves for it; yea, when it hath not ingrata recordatio, an unsavory and displeasing remembrance, and a holy horror • following thereupon, there is guilt: Of this we spoke somewhat in the Preface to the Commands.
These abominations then are not restricted to the outward act, but are extended further, and many ways men commit this wickedness: as 1. In heart, Christ calleth the lusting of a man after a woman a committing of Adultery in his heart,